[OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

Dave Stubbs osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk
Fri Jul 30 14:33:59 BST 2010


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:35 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 July 2010 21:27, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
>> On Friday, July 30, 2010 04:48:03 pm Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>> Don't be fooled; the small changeset comment that you enter when
>>> uploading stuff will be read by many people. Done well, changeset
>>> comments are tremendously helpful.
>>
>> helpful reminder - my problem is that I put an entry like 'fine tuning south
>> Mumbai', and then for the next changeset, I forget to put anything, so it
>> again goes as 'fine tuning south mumbai' when it is actually concerning a place
>> hundreds of kilometers away.
>
> +1
>
> I've been caught several times forgetting to change the changeset
> comment and so it ends up worst than any generic comment since it then
> is misleading as to what happened.
>
> Maybe we just need better tools to summerise changes made, rather than
> trying to get something meaningful by way of the comment field...
>

Yes, but when you start doing stuff like:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5342181

and:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5339329

you really do have a duty to explain yourself a bit better.
An automatic summary may well produce, "Removed amenity tag from 5
thousand nodes, please revert me".

Dave




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